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magnes
Latin · ancient
"magnet"
magnet, since manganese ore was confused with magnetic lodestone
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manganese
Italian · medieval
"the dark mineral used in glassmaking"
adapted for the dark mineral used by glassmakers
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manganese
French · 1700s
"the mineral and its metallic element"
carried into French chemical vocabulary for the mineral and its element
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manganese
English · 1770s
"a hard, brittle metallic element"
settled as the English word for the hard, brittle metallic element
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